TAPHERD This learning community is to help me provide my students in physical education with new and improved ways to approach exercise. We have a week set aside in the summer where we go through professional development, and throughout the year, we communicate and are kept up to date with weekly articles, blog posts, and emails. AVID Site Team This community provides all information necessary for our school to continue operating as a National Demonstration School. With this group, we meet once a week and decide how to take college readiness for our students to the next level, whether it be through school-wide binders or W.I.C.O.R. (writing, inquiry, collaboration, organization, and reading) strategies provided through every class in our school; such as, Cornell notes, one-pagers, marking the text, philosophical chairs, Socratic seminars, etc. Summer Institute training is also provided through this PLC. We meet for a week and learn new strategies to take back to our schools and incorporate in our classrooms so our students will be more engaged in the content. ED TECH Mansfield ISD This community is provided through out school district in our technology department. All teachers are required to take part and have 12 hours in technology professional development. You are allowed to take as many as you want, so I take part in this opportunity. They train us on the newest or latest finds in technology and education integration. We incorporate different devices and learn on both PC and Mac. An example of what we last discussed before the school year was out was online classrooms. We suggested blackboard and canvas since they would see those in college. We were approved for canvas and so they picked 3 teachers from each of our 11 secondary schools to do a trial run. This is probably my favorite learning community because they are closer and I am able to get face to face time with them more often than 2 of my other PLC groups. Electives PLC This community is my least favorite because at my school they put all the elective teachers in one group. This is strange to me because we all teach different subjects. The elective courses are as follows:
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Erica RobersonEager learner who loves to challenge the minds of today's youth and figure out ways to keep them interested and engaged in the learning process. Archives
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